Lucas Attia

Program Year:

University:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Field of Study:

Chemical Engineering

Advisor:

Patrick Doyle

Degree(s):

B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, 2021

Personal URL:

https://lucasattia.github.io/

Practicum Experience(s)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2023)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

Samuel

Blau

Practicum Title:

Inverse Design of Upconverting Nanoparticles via Deep Learning on Physics-Infused Heterogeneous Graphs

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Inverse Design of Upconverting Nanoparticles via Deep Learning on Physics-Infused Heterogeneous Graphs (2024)

Interfacial Competition on Drug Crystal Surfaces (2023)

Core-Shell Hydrogel Particles for the Formulation of Hydrophobic Small-Molecule APIs (2022)

Publications

Attia, L., Nguyen, D., Gohkale, D., Zheng, T., & Doyle, P.S. (2024). Surfactant-Polymer Complexation and Competition on Drug Nanocrystal Surfaces Control Crystallinity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Attia, L., Chen, L. H., & Doyle, P. S. (2023). Orthogonal Gelations to Synthesize Core Shell Hydrogels Loaded with Nanoemulsion Templated Drug Nanoparticles for Versatile Oral Drug Delivery. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2301667.

Sivonxay, E., Attia, L., Spotte-Smith, E. W. C., Lengeling, B., Xia, X., Barter, D., ... & Blau, S. (2024). Inverse Design of Complex Nanoparticle Heterostructures via Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs.

Attia, L., Burns, J. W., Doyle, P. S., & Green, W. H. (2024). Organic Solubility Prediction at the Limit of Aleatoric Uncertainty.

Awards

MDPI Pharmaceuticals Travel Award, 2024
Merck Best Poster Award, Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting, 2024
Dow Travel Award, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, 2024
Langmuir Graduate Student Award, ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposiun, 2024
Best Student Seminar Award, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, 2024
Best Abstract Award, APS Virtual Polymer Physics Workshop, 2023
MIT Chemical Engineering Communication Fellowship, 2022-2026
NSF GRFP, 2021 (declined)
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2020